2017/18 Premier League season review

Manchester City won the 2017/18 Premier League with 100 points, the first English top-flight side to reach that total, and finished 19 points clear of Manchester United. In Pep Guardiola's second season they won 32 of 38 games, scored 106 goals and won a record 18 league games in a row.

Mohamed Salah scored 32 league goals in his first season at Liverpool, a record for a 38-game season. He was also Fantasy Premier League's top scorer, with 303 points. Yusuf Sheikh won the overall game with 2,512.

You can replay the season here with a £100m squad picked from 359 players across all 20 clubs, or read on for how it unfolded.

Before the season: the big spenders

The summer of 2017 was dominated by expensive strikers. Manchester United signed Romelu Lukaku from Everton for £75m, Chelsea paid Real Madrid £70m for Álvaro Morata, and Arsenal signed Alexandre Lacazette from Lyon for £52m. Everton spent £45m on Gylfi Sigurdsson from Swansea.

Guardiola rebuilt City's defence. Kyle Walker arrived from Tottenham for £50m and Benjamin Mendy from Monaco, alongside goalkeeper Ederson from Benfica and Bernardo Silva, also from Monaco. Liverpool signed Mohamed Salah from Roma for a reported £36.9m.

The spending didn't stop in January. Liverpool sold Philippe Coutinho to Barcelona for £146m and paid Southampton £75m for Virgil van Dijk, the most expensive defender of all time. Alexis Sánchez and Henrikh Mkhitaryan swapped Arsenal and Manchester United, Arsenal signed Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang from Borussia Dortmund for around £60m, and City added Aymeric Laporte for £57m.

Newcastle United, Brighton and Hove Albion and Huddersfield Town were the promoted clubs.

How City reached 100 points

City's season was effectively decided by Christmas. They won 18 league games in a row, a new English record, and the run ended only on 31 December with a 0-0 draw at Crystal Palace. Even that needed a late save: Ederson stopped a Luka Milivojević penalty, and Kevin De Bruyne was carried off in stoppage time. City's lead was already 14 points.

They went 22 league games unbeaten from the start of the season. The run ended on 14 January 2018 at Anfield, where Liverpool won 4-3 after scoring three times in nine second-half minutes, with Salah getting the fourth. City lost only one more league game all season.

That second defeat came in the derby on 7 April, when City led Manchester United 2-0 at half-time and lost 3-2. It only delayed things by a week. On 15 April United lost 1-0 at home to West Brom, and City were champions with five games to spare.

Guardiola's first trophy at the club had come earlier, with a 3-0 win over Arsenal in the League Cup final on 25 February. Liverpool knocked City out of the Champions League in the quarter-finals.

The 100th point came on the final day. At Southampton on 13 May, substitute Gabriel Jesus scored in the fourth minute of stoppage time for a 1-0 win. City finished with records for points (100), wins (32), away wins (16), goals (106), goal difference (+79) and winning margin (19 points). De Bruyne's 16 assists were the most in the league.

Wenger's farewell and the rest of the table

Behind City, the table looked like this:

• Manchester United were second on 81 points in José Mourinho's second season, a long way behind but their highest finish since Ferguson retired.
• Tottenham finished third on 77 points. Harry Kane scored 30 league goals and still finished two behind Salah.
• Liverpool were fourth on 75 points, with 84 goals, and knocked City out of Europe.
• Chelsea, the defending champions, fell to fifth, and Antonio Conte left after the season.
• Arsenal finished sixth. On 20 April 2018 Arsène Wenger announced he would leave at the end of the season, after 22 years in charge, with Arsenal 33 points behind City at the time.
• Burnley were seventh, ahead of Everton.

Everton sacked Ronald Koeman in October and appointed Sam Allardyce at the end of November. Crystal Palace replaced Frank de Boer after just four games with Roy Hodgson, and West Ham swapped Slaven Bilić for David Moyes in November.

The relegation fight

All three promoted clubs stayed up, the first time that had happened since 2011/12. Newcastle finished tenth, Brighton 15th and Huddersfield 16th.

The three relegated clubs went down in the final fortnight:

• Stoke City were the first to go, after a 2-1 defeat by Crystal Palace in their penultimate game.
• West Bromwich Albion were relegated on 8 May. Tony Pulis had been sacked in November and replaced by Alan Pardew.
• Swansea City went down on the final day, 13 May, after a 2-1 defeat by Stoke. Paul Clement had been sacked in December and replaced by Carlos Carvalhal.

Surprises and disappointments

Salah's season was the biggest individual surprise. He arrived from Roma for a reported £36.9m and scored 32 league goals, passing the 31 shared by Cristiano Ronaldo, Alan Shearer and Luis Suárez. Others also beat expectations:

• Burnley finished seventh, the best of the clubs outside the established top six.
• The promoted clubs all survived, for the first time in six seasons.
• Leroy Sané was PFA Young Player of the Year in his second season at City.

Others had seasons to forget:

• Chelsea went from champions to fifth, and changed manager again.
• Crystal Palace sacked Frank de Boer after four games, then recovered under Hodgson.
• Everton spent heavily after selling Lukaku, sacked Koeman in October and finished eighth.
• West Brom and Swansea both changed manager during the season and still went down, along with Stoke.

2017/18 in Fantasy Premier League

About 5.2 million managers played Fantasy Premier League in 2017/18. Yusuf Sheikh won with 2,512 points. Bharat Dhody had led the overall rankings for many weeks before being overtaken at the end, and Sheikh congratulated him when he won.

Salah dominated the game. Listed as a midfielder, he scored 303 points, 74 more than anyone else, and by the end of the season 56.7% of managers owned him. Raheem Sterling (229), Kane (217) and De Bruyne (209) were next.

Two smaller stories stood out. Brighton's Pascal Groß scored 164 points in their first season after promotion, and Burnley's Nick Pope finished on 152, the fourth-highest total among goalkeepers. David de Gea led them with 172.

The PFA Team of the Year

The champions had five players in the players' own Team of the Year, and Sergio Agüero was included for the first time.

The season's awards: Salah was PFA Players' Player of the Year, Football Writers' Footballer of the Year and the Premier League's Player of the Season. Leroy Sané was PFA Young Player of the Year, and Guardiola was Manager of the Season.

2017/18 quick answers

Who won the Premier League in 2017/18? Manchester City, with a record 100 points, 19 ahead of Manchester United.

How many points did Manchester City get in 2017/18? 100, from 32 wins, 4 draws and 2 defeats. Gabriel Jesus scored the winner for the 100th point at Southampton on the final day.

Who was relegated in 2017/18? Swansea City, Stoke City and West Bromwich Albion.

Who was the Premier League top scorer in 2017/18? Mohamed Salah, with 32 league goals, a record for a 38-game season.

Who was PFA Player of the Year in 2017/18? Mohamed Salah. Leroy Sané was Young Player of the Year.

Who scored the most FPL points in 2017/18? Mohamed Salah, with 303.

Who won Fantasy Premier League in 2017/18? Yusuf Sheikh, with 2,512 points.